wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures; Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)
job transfer away from one's home; taking up a new post leaving one's family behind
great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough
so what!; who gives a damn?
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
junior high school student; middle school pupil
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
clamour; clamor; uproar; tumult; furore; furor
childish; child-like; immature; infantile
deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out
super-; ultra-; extremely; really; over; more than
to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
stealthily; secretly; in secret
serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
abrupt; sudden; unexpected
guardian; protector; patron; parent
unworthy; unbecoming; improper
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
disadvantage; handicap; drawback; inadvisability; inexpediency; loss
to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)
whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
thank you for your hard work; good work; see you; goodbye; goodnight
old person; elderly person; trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay; senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate); important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
than; other than; except; but
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
stray sheep; lost lamb; (fig.) person at a loss for what to do
(young) person subsisting on part-time work; person whose livelihood is provided by part-time work
(period of) a year; during an era
uncertain; vague; ambiguous
a (short) time; a while; one time (in the past); a period; (arch.) two-hour period